Cassidy D’Aloia of the Buston Lab was selected as the winner of the 2016 Belamarich Award for outstanding doctoral dissertation in Biology for her thesis “Patterns, causes, and consequences of connectivity within a coral reef fish metapopulation.”
Post-defense, D’Aloia is currently working as a Postdoctoral Scholar at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Her research integrates empirical dispersal data, metapopulation theory, and dynamic habitat modeling to predict how species will respond to anthropogenic impacts on seascapes.
Congratulations, Cassidy. We wish you the best in your future endeavors!